Rake.



JAMES amours, or NEW Yoan, N. Y.

Specification Vof Letters Patent.

Patented Jury 1s, 191e.

Application led July 19, 1913. Serial No. 779,999.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES RrroHrc, a c1t1- zen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain improvements in rakes and has for its ob.

ject the provision of'a rake which "will not become clogged during the process of rakgnother object of my invention is the provision of a rakehead which may be cheaply manufactured from a, single sheet of material, thereby reducing the cost of production and making a strong and durable rake head. Still another object of my invention is the provision of a rake head wherein the teeth will be substantially resilient, thereby materially assisting in the prevention of clogging. With the above and other objects in view I now proceed to describe my invention in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a view of y the blank from which my improved rake head is formed, Fig. 2 is a frontview of the rake head showing the same in its operative condition, and Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings by characters of reference, 5 indicates the body portion of my improved rake head., which isformed of a single sheet of material, and has extending angularly from one edge thereofthe teeth 6,

which taper toward their ends lto form the blunt points of the rake teeth. A set of teeth 9 extend angularly from the body portionon the side opposite the teeth 6 and are formed integrally with said body portion. yThe angularly extending teeth 9 are preferably shorter than the teeth 6, which extend from the opposite side of the rake and are spaced from each other as shown at 8. An elongated slot 7 is centrally located with relation to the body portion -5 and is adapted to form a means to secure the handle to the rake head. The teeth referred to, as at',

are preferably spaced from each other and lie in a plane directly opposite the recesses 8, and the teeth projecting from the opposite side of the rake lie directly opposite the recesses formed between the teeth 6, as will be clearly seen upon referring. to Fig.. 2. The side edges of the teeth 6 and 9 diverge as'they extend toward the bases of the'teeth and are arcuate, merging into the side edges l of the plate for reinforcing the connection Vbetween the plate and the teeth asis clearly shown in the drawings,

It will be obvious from the foregoing that with my improved construction the cost of producing such implements as above described, is materially decreased and owing to the peculiar arrangement of the two sets of teeth with relation. to each other the clogging of the spaces between the teeth is substantially eliminated. A further noticeable feature of my construction is the resiliency which will be obtained upon the use of rake heads formed in this manner as each individual tooth will be at liberty to spring in either direction independently of the others and in that manner any stones or other material which lis apt toA be forced and held between the rake teeth will vspring the teeth and drop outwardly, thereby leaving the teeth in their normal condition and eliminating the necessity of the operator having to remove the foreign substances from the rake by hand.

While in the foregoing I have shown 'and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, I wish it to be understood that I may change the specific` arrangement of parts without in any way departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

In a rake head, a body plate, a plurality of raking teeth extending from the same side of the body plate at opposite edges thereof, the set of teeth upon one edge being shorter thanA the teeth on the opposite edge, said teethV being disposed at a slight diverging angle to each other, the teeth formed upon one edge of said plate being disposed staggeredly with relation to the teeth formed on the other plate, said teeth having their sides Menem at their rbases area'te and merg In testimony wheeof afx my signature inginto the inforcing the in presence of two witnesses between said teeth and base, and JAMES BITCHES.

a longi- Witnesses: Y y extending slot for facilitating the WILLIAM J. BRUN, adjustment of theA body plate to a, handle. HARRY E. SMITH.

side edges of said base for re connectlon 

